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From Farewell To Fáilte: The Voices Of Iowa’S Irish Daughters, Katie Hermanson

History Theses, Dissertations, and Student Creative Activity

Irish women’s immigration to Iowa brought rich culture and lasting impacts, despite their contributions being silenced by history. Women left Ireland for economic opportunity and education abroad to support their impoverished families. Millions emigrated between 1830 and 1915, spreading across the world. The Irish women who came to the United States encountered discrimination and cultural stereotyping as they worked in domestic service, developed religious orders, taught school, owned businesses and raised families. Women bore the burden of supporting their families in Ireland by sending remittances home and communicating between countries. Their cultural identity as exiles dwelled in guilt for leaving …

Material Encounters: Making Memory Beyond The Mind, Ariel Wills

Masters Theses

Can acts of making carry the memories of our embeddedness within the world? This thesis explores how making things can nurture a sense of kinship that cuts across the organic and inorganic, erasing the distinction between living and dead, material and spiritual. Through handwork such as art-making, sewing, knitting, cooking, woodworking, and beyond, the burden of remembering and of archiving is shared across human and non-human bodies, cultivated through practices of making, and through the materials themselves. By recounting the stories of my family’s experience as Jewish immigrants in the United States, I aim to reveal how their domestic practices …

Sacred Music In Colonial Era Hispaniola: The Evangelization Of The Taino People, Tito J. Gutierrez

Student Theses

During the 15th-18th centuries, the major European religious orders; the Franciscans, Dominicans, Jesuits, and Jeronymites, journeyed to the newly colonized American territories in an attempt to convert the multitudes of natives peoples living there. Along with prayer books, crucifixes, and religious images, these missionaries brought sacred European music to American shores in an attempt to attract the native people to the Catholic faith.The use of music as a tool for conversion of native people in places such as Mexico, South America, California, and the South West United States, have been well researched and documented. However, the research of the spiritual …

Envisioning New Switzerland: A Founding Document For The Swiss Colonists At Vevay, Indiana, Ellen Stepleton

Zea E-Books Collection

During one of the most tumultuous decades in the history of Switzerland, a small group of Vaudois republicans chose to secure their children’s familial, cultural and spiritual patrimony by relocating to the New World. In April 1800, at Le Chenit in the Vallée de Joux, five families framed a compact intended to organize a communal settlement in the Northwest Territory. Recently discovered, their pact is presented here in its original French and in English translation, along with an accompanying letter; additionally, another letter and an English translation of the compact as prepared by Jean Jaques Dufour in 1801 is supplied. …

The Bronx Was Brewing: A Digital Resource Of A Lost Industry, Michelle Zimmer

Dissertations, Theses, and Capstone Projects

The Bronx: a bucolic oasis laden with history, a suburb within city-limits, an urban warzone, and thanks to the recent renaissance, a phoenix of progress rising from the proverbial ashes of the fires that burned through the borough in the 1970’s. But many people are unaware that the Bronx also brewed.
Uncovering the brewing industry of the Bronx tells not only the story of the lost industry, but it also communicates the narrative of the development of the Bronx. The brewers were German immigrants who developed a thriving industry by introducing lager beer to the United States by taking advantage …

The Cultural Translation Of Ginsberg's Howl In Turkey, Erik Mortenson

CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture

In his article "The Cultural Translation of Ginsberg's Howl in Turkey" Erik Mortenson examines three Turkish translations of Allen Ginsberg's poem Howl in order to explore the ways in which Ginsberg's poem becomes redeployed in new cultural contexts. Orhan Duru and Ferit Edgü's 1976 translation presents a more politicized Ginsberg that draws on his anti-establishment credentials as a social activist. This comes as little surprise, since in pre-1980 coup Turkey rebellion was thought in purely political terms of right verses left. Hakan Arslan's 1991 update provides a less political and more familiar Ginsberg, in keeping with a society that left …

Introduction To New Work On Immigration And Identity In Contemporary France, Québec, And Ireland, Dervila Cooke

CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture

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Thematic Bibliography To New Work On Immigration And Identity In Contemporary France, Québec, And Ireland, Dervila Cooke

CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture

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The Religious Divide: Why Religion Seems To Be Thriving In The United States And Waning In Europe, Steven Pfaff

Sociology Faculty Books and Book Chapters

"In the decades following the Second World War, most social scientists expected convergence among the Western industrial democracies. Modernization was expected to bring prosperity and opportunity, initiating a “culture shift” to posttraditional values and lifestyles.

However, in recent years observers have remarked on a growing divide between Europeans and Americans. This divergence may be nowhere greater than in the religious sphere. While faith is loudly proclaimed and a bustling diversity of religious organizations jostles for attention in all arenas of public life in the United States, the European Union (EU) is described as thoroughly secularized, comprised of societies in which …

American Irish Newsletter - November 2002, American Ireland Education Foundation - Pec

American Irish Newsletter

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American Irish Newsletter - October 2002, American Ireland Education Foundation - Pec

American Irish Newsletter

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American Irish Newsletter - September 2002, American Ireland Education Foundation - Pec

American Irish Newsletter

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American Irish Newsletter - August 2002, American Ireland Education Foundation - Pec

American Irish Newsletter

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American Irish Newsletter - July 2002, American Ireland Education Foundation - Pec

American Irish Newsletter

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American Irish Newsletter - June 2002, American Ireland Education Foundation - Pec

American Irish Newsletter

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American Irish Newsletter - May 2002, American Ireland Education Foundation - Pec

American Irish Newsletter

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American Irish Newsletter - April 2002, American Ireland Education Foundation - Pec

American Irish Newsletter

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American Irish Newsletter - March 2002, American Ireland Education Foundation - Pec

American Irish Newsletter

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American Irish Newsletter - February 2002, American Ireland Education Foundation - Pec

American Irish Newsletter

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American Irish Newsletter - January 2002, American Ireland Education Foundation - Pec

American Irish Newsletter

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American Irish Newsletter - December 2001, American Ireland Education Foundation - Pec

American Irish Newsletter

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American Irish Newsletter - November 2001, American Ireland Education Foundation - Pec

American Irish Newsletter

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American Irish Newsletter - October 2001, American Ireland Education Foundation - Pec

American Irish Newsletter

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American Irish Newsletter - September 2001, American Ireland Education Foundation - Pec

American Irish Newsletter

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American Irish Newsletter - August 2001, American Ireland Education Foundation - Pec

American Irish Newsletter

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American Irish Newsletter - July 2001, American Ireland Education Foundation - Pec

American Irish Newsletter

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American Irish Newsletter - June 2001, American Ireland Education Foundation - Pec

American Irish Newsletter

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American Irish Newsletter - May 2001, American Ireland Education Foundation - Pec

American Irish Newsletter

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American Irish Newsletter - April 2001, American Ireland Education Foundation - Pec

American Irish Newsletter

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American Irish Newsletter - March 2001, American Ireland Education Foundation - Pec

American Irish Newsletter

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